OpenAI, SpaceX, Anthropic: the tech giants lining up blockbuster IPOs Tech For more than a decade, Silicon Valley’s most powerful companies have stayed private for longer than ever before, buoyed by deep pools of capital and sovereign wealth funding. But, as interest rates remain higher, AI infrastructure costs balloon and some of the world’s largest private firms mature into businesses of national, and increasingly geopolitical, importance, [...]
Cloudflare outage takes X, ChatGPT and other major sites offline A major Cloudflare outage has triggered a global internet disruption, knocking offline some of the world’s most heavily used websites. The likes of X, ChatGPT, Canva and major online services have gone dark, in what has quickly become one of the largest internet failures of the year. The issue began on Tuesday morning and escalated [...]
Canva’s AI gambit rekindles the human cost debate Tech When Canva announced in April that it was cutting the headcount of its technical writing team, the decision surprised many in the industry. The move came just months after the Australian tech giant had strongly encouraged employees to integrate generative AI tools into their daily workflows – a push that, for some, felt like a [...]